Every deal Afrobeats Wire verified this week, with the document behind each one. Figures are as stated in the source; where no consideration was disclosed, the row says so.
| Deal | Type | Parties | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goodlyfe Magic Limited Terminated UPRS’s Mandate Over a 285,498 Shilling Royalty Cheque. Uganda’s Only Collecting Society Answered the Payout, Not the Termination. | Licensing | Uganda Performing Right Society, Goodlyfe Magic Limited | Not applicable. This is the termination of a royalty-collection and administration mandate, not a monetary transaction. The disputed payout at the centre of the dispute, UGX 285,498, is quoted by every source as the trigger, not as a deal value. | Document |
| Cape Verde’s Music Society Signed Reciprocal Representation Contracts With Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau on One Afternoon in Praia. Its Own Schedule Still Shows No Works Behind the Guinea-Bissau One. | Licensing | Sociedade Cabo-verdiana de Musica, UNAC-SA, Sociedade Mocambicana de Autores, Sociedade Guineense de Autores | Not applicable (no amount disclosed) Not disclosed. No document read for this record states a fee, advance, commission rate, administration deduction or any other consideration attached to these three contracts. No document read states that they were concluded without consideration either, so nothing is asserted in either direction. | Document |
| Gabon’s Copyright Office Signed an Ivorian Tech Firm to Track Royalties. Its Own Minister Says Only 14 Artists Are Registered to Collect Them. | Licensing | Bureau Gabonais du Droit d’Auteur et des Droits Voisins, General Management Corporation (GMC-SA) | Not applicable (no amount disclosed) Not disclosed. No source read for this record gives a contract value, a fee GMC-SA is paid, or a cost figure for the pilot beyond BUGADA covering unspecified "technical and logistical" costs while GMC-SA covers deployment, data processing and reporting. | Document |
| Rekkod and Shammah Records: The Deal Record | Distribution | Rekkod, Shammah Records | Not disclosed Not disclosed | Document |
| Verod Capital’s Own 2011 Release Called the Spinlet Deal Both an Investment and “the First Acquisition.” No Source Since Has Said What Happened to the Company. | Acquisition, Investment | Verod Capital Management, Spinlet | Not disclosed Not disclosed | Document |
| ZAMCOPS Engaged ACRCloud for Radio Broadcast Monitoring on 13 February 2025. Two Months Later Its Own General Manager Said Fewer Than 15 of More Than 150 Zambian Radio Stations Were Licensed. | Licensing | Zambia Music Copyright Protection Society, ACRCloud | Zambian Kwacha (ZMW); no consideration disclosed in either currency Not disclosed. Neither ZAMCOPS nor ACRCloud has published a fee, a licence cost, a term, a payment structure or a station count for this engagement, and no figure appears in the announcement, on either party's website, or in any ZAMCOPS annual report this desk could obtain. The relevant disclosed figures are ZAMCOPS's own, from its last published audited accounts (year ended 31 March 2022): revenue K799,023 (prior year K853,584); other income K263,233; operating expenses K1,139,856; operating loss K77,600; accumulated loss K152,142; public performance tariff revenue K763,411; mechanical rights revenue K212 for the full year; trade and other receivables K3,225,290; cash and cash equivalents K96,209; Royalties Payable to members K3,182,293; auditor's remuneration K25,000; employee costs K619,031. In the same year ZAMCOPS reports distributing K884,773 to members. Its two earlier published distribution totals are K447,177 (2017) and K557,597 (2018). ZAMCOPS has published no annual report for any financial year after 2022, so there is no audited disclosure of what this engagement cost or what it changed. | Document |
| COSOMA Called a 20% Royalty Deduction a ‘System Error.’ Its Own Executive Director Called the Same 20% Cosoma’s Fee. | Licensing | Copyright Society of Malawi, Akometsi Limited, Madness Entertainment | Malawian Kwacha (MWK) COSOMA collected approximately K3 billion in Blank Media Levy revenue in the year reported. Of that, a reported breakdown gives K150 million (5%) to the Malawi Revenue Authority as an administration fee, K150 million (5%) to government via the Ministry of Finance, K300 million (10%) to the Copyright Fund, and K1.8 billion (60%) earmarked for rights holders. Those four figures sum to K2.4 billion, not the stated K3 billion collected; no source read accounts for the remaining K600 million. A further 20% (K360 million) is then deducted from the K1.8 billion rights-holder share, leaving about K1.44 billion, which one of the companies in this dispute calculates as roughly 48% of the total K3 billion collected. | Document |
| ChristyB Records Said It Pulled DJ Arafat’s “In Memory” From YouTube in November 2025. On Apple and Deezer, Obouo Music’s Own Copyright Line Never Moved. | Settlement | ChristyB Records, Obouo Music | XOF No price, royalty rate or licence fee is disclosed anywhere in this record, because no licence, sale or assignment between any of the parties has been identified. The only figure in any source is a damages estimate, not a transaction value: Christy B told Afrik Soir, in an interview published 13 August 2026, that he estimates harm to DJ Arafat's estate at more than 400 million CFA francs. That figure is his own estimate only. No independent valuation, court award, settlement or admission by David Monsoh or Obouo Music corroborates it, and this desk located no published ruling from either the 2025 Abidjan-Plateau case or the 2026 referral to the Pole penal economique et financier that states a figure. | Document |
| Orange Burkina Faso Promised Artists 10% of Allô Muzik Revenue. BBDA’s Own Director Called It a Redistribution, Not the Direct Payment the Announcement Described. | Licensing | Orange Burkina Faso, Bureau Burkinabe du Droit d’Auteur | Not applicable (no amount disclosed) Not disclosed. No source checked gives Allô Muzik's total revenue, subscriber count, or the value of the prior flat annual fee Orange Burkina Faso already pays BBDA, so the money value of the new 10% commitment cannot be calculated from any document this desk read. | Document |
| CashTime Life’s 23-Record Catalogue Carries Its Own Phonogram Claim on Apple and Deezer. Both Stores’ Product Numbers Put the Delivery After 2021, Years After the Label Stopped Operating | CashTime Life, Sony Music Entertainment Africa (Pty) Ltd | N/A Not disclosed, and no transaction has been identified. This record documents a phonogram claim and a delivery window read from store metadata. It does not document an announced acquisition, assignment, licence or distribution agreement, because no party has announced one. No price, advance, royalty rate or equity figure has been published for anything described here. | Document | |
| Now-Again Records Licensed WITCH’s Zamrock Masters From One Surviving Member. Its Own Two Credit Lines on the Same 2025 Release Disagree on Whether It Owns Them or Only Administers Them | Licensing | Now-Again Records, Zambia Music Parlour, Teal Record Company | Not disclosed Not disclosed. No advance, fee, royalty rate or revenue split appears in any document reached, for this licence or for the original Teal Record Company contract. The only figure Chanda states anywhere is a 15,000 kwacha loan taken from Teal in the 1970s to buy instruments, which is not consideration for this licence. | Document |
| Sawt Al-Qahera Says a 2020 Court Ruling Gave It Umm Kulthum’s Masters. Mohsen Gaber Reads the Same Ruling as a Licence to Him | Catalogue Sale, Settlement | Mazzika Group, Stars for Artistic Production, Sawt Al-Qahera (Cairo Voice Company) | EGP NO PURCHASE PRICE IS DISCLOSED ANYWHERE IN THIS RECORD. The only figure in any source checked is a damages award, not a price: Mohsen Gaber told Filfan on 29 September 2020 that the Cairo Economic Court ordered Sawt Al-Qahera to pay Starz for Artistic Production EGP 1,500,000 for breaching the 17 October 2010 licensing contract. That figure comes from Gaber's own statement only; this desk found no independent confirmation of it, and no source states what, if anything, Mohsen Gaber paid the Umm Kulthum heirs who sold him their combined 80 per cent of a 30 per cent inheritance share, per Sawt Al-Qahera chair Nadia Mabrouk's account on 10 January 2024. | Document |
| Muzikawi Named Sony’s The Orchard Its Digital Distributor in March 2022 and Added In Sheep’s Clothing for US Distribution in May 2026. Its Own Phonogram Credit Stopped Claiming the Masters Outright in February 2025. | Distribution | Muzikawi, The Orchard, Sony Music Entertainment, In Sheep’s Clothing | NOT DISCLOSED, BY ANY PARTY, FOR ANY LEG OF THIS CHAIN. Muzikawi's 16 March 2022 announcement of The Orchard arrangement states no advance, no fee, no revenue share and no royalty rate. In Sheep's Clothing's 28 May 2026 announcement of United States distribution states none either. No filing, registry entry or statement found by this desk puts a figure on either arrangement, and this record does not estimate one. Sony's own filing does carry a figure, but it belongs to a different transaction: Sony Corporation's Form 6-K of 5 August 2015 records a fair-value remeasurement gain of 18,085 million yen (151 million US dollars) on the 51 per cent of The Orchard that Sony Music Entertainment already held when it went to 100 per cent. That number is about Sony buying out its own co-owner in 2015. It has nothing to do with Muzikawi. | Document |
| Senegal’s SODAV and Mali’s BUMDA Signed a Reciprocal Royalty-Collection Deal in Dakar. Two of the Five Outlets That Reported It Can’t Agree on One Signatory’s Title. | Licensing | SODAV, Bureau Malien du Droit d’Auteur | Not applicable (no amount disclosed) Not disclosed. No source checked for this record gives a collection rate, administrative fee split, or any revenue-sharing figure between the two societies. | Document |
| Sowetan Reported a 51% Universal Music Stake in Kalawa Jazmee in 2016. Everyone Named Denied It, and a Decade of Release Credits Backs Them Up. | Kalawa Jazmee, Universal Music (Pty) Ltd (ZA) | ZAR (reported figure, disputed) Reported: ZAR 50,000,000 total (ZAR 28,000,000 to the founders). Disputed; never confirmed by any named party. | Document | |
| Universal Music MENA Announced Three ‘Flagship’ Egyptian Rap Signings in October 2023. Apple’s Own Catalogue Credits Show One Relationship Started 14 Months Earlier, and All Three Ended by August 2024. | Joint Venture | Universal Music Middle East & North Africa, Harb Management | Not disclosed Not disclosed. No source checked names a fee, royalty split, equity stake, or any other financial term for the Universal Music MENA / Harb Management arrangement. | Document |
| Create Music Group Calls Its !K7 Deal an Acquisition. !K7’s Own CEO Calls It a Partnership. One of Them Now Owns the Label Behind Orchestra Baobab’s New Album. | Create Music Group, !K7 Music GmbH | Not disclosed Not disclosed. Neither trade report checked, nor any statement from either company, names a price, a percentage of shares, or a valuation for the !K7 transaction. US SEC EDGAR full-text search returns zero hits for "Create Music Group" (checked 1 November 2026), consistent with Create being privately held and not required to disclose deal terms. | Document | |
| Angola’s Copyright Regulator Ruled for SADIA in Its 453 Million Kwanza Dispute With Unitel. Three Years Later, It Cancelled SADIA’s Own Licence to Collect Anything. | Settlement | Sociedade Angolana de Direitos de Autor, Unitel (Angola), Serviço Nacional de Direitos de Autor e Conexos (SENADIAC) | AOA 453,000,000 kwanza (AOA), per Angolan collecting society SADIA's own demand to Unitel, reported by Expansão and attributed to SENADIAC's ruling in SADIA's favour. This is a disputed royalty claim, not a completed payment: no source checked for this record confirms Unitel ever paid any part of it, and Unitel's own public position, also reported by Expansão, is that it owes SADIA nothing absent proof SADIA exclusively represents the artists in question. | Document |
| PopArabia Called 7liwa an Independent Artist When It Signed Him in 2022. Sony Music Middle East’s Own 2019 Announcement Says He Already Had a Label. | Publishing | PopArabia, Reservoir Media, Inc. | Not disclosed | Document |
| Chocolate City Licensed CKay’s Masters to Warner Music South Africa in November 2020. The Remix That Actually Went Viral Still Carries No Warner Credit. | Licensing | Chocolate City Music, Warner Music Group | Not disclosed | Document |
| Sintonia Publishing Signed a Reciprocal Global Deal With Sheer Publishing Africa in March 2025. That Company Has Changed Its Name and Its Owner Twice Since, and Sintonia’s Own Site Still Uses the Old One. | Publishing | Sheer Publishing Africa, Sintonia Publishing | Not disclosed | Document |
| Koffi Olomidé Says He’s in Talks to Sell His 816-Song Catalogue to an Unnamed US Label. The Credit Line Behind It Already Names Four Different Companies Across Three Decades | Catalogue Sale | Karakos Productions & Publishing (Sonodisc), Next Music, Koffi Central | N/A Not disclosed. Koffi Olomidé has not stated an asking price. Congo Quotidien's own report offers an unattributed 'prudent' estimate of USD 10 million to 15 million pending an audit; that figure belongs to the outlet, not to either party to the talks, and is not treated here as a deal value. | Document |
| CANEX Creations’ D’Banj Equity Deal Was a Term Sheet in July 2025. No Primary Source Has Confirmed a Closing Since. | Investment | CANEX Creations Inc., D’Kings Men Media Ltd | Not disclosed Not disclosed. No source consulted, including Afreximbank's own press release, states a dollar figure, valuation, or equity percentage for CANEX Creations Inc.'s position in D'Kings Men Media Ltd. | Document |
| Geez Creative Says Ethiopian Artists Have Direct Royalty Deals With ASCAP and Sentric Music. Neither Record Shows One | Distribution, Publishing | Geez Creative, ASCAP, Sentric Music | Not disclosed | Document |
| Four UK Companies Have Carried the Africori Name. Warner’s SEC Filing Names Only One. | Acquisition | Africa Music International Ltd, Kenket Ltd, AMR Capital Ltd | Not disclosed. Person with significant control filings do not record consideration, and no accounts, resolution, charge or Gazette notice read by this desk discloses a price, a share count or a valuation for the 27 June 2021 change of control. The only monetary figures established anywhere in this structure are the balance sheet totals in Africa Music International Ltd's own micro-entity accounts for the year ended 31 August 2025: fixed assets GBP 1,000, current assets GBP 6,273, creditors falling due within one year GBP 5,705, net current assets GBP 568, net assets GBP 1,568, against net liabilities of GBP 3,372 in the prior year, with zero employees and no intangible assets of any kind. | Document |
| A Judge Told MCSN and ReLPI to Settle Nigeria’s Frozen N1.2 Billion Levy Fight in May 2026. By October, MCSN Still Would Not Say What It Collects. | Settlement | RELPI, MCSN, COSON | NGN No new amount is disclosed here as a deal value. The N1,205,956,580.20 Private Copy Levy tranche frozen by a February 2026 Mareva injunction (covered in this desk's earlier record) remains the only MCSN figure in any source read. MCSN disclosed no collection or distribution total for 2025 or 2026 despite a documented Whistler request; COSON separately disclosed N465.5 million as its 2024 member distribution, a different organisation and a different fund, not directly comparable to the levy. | Document |
| Général Philo Says Bomayé Musik’s Catalogue Is Still His, No Matter Who Leaves. Apple Music’s Own Credit Line Puts Naza’s Exit Three Years Before He Describes It. | Settlement | Bomayé Musik, 99 Révolution, Capricarolesque Industry | Not disclosed | Document |
| GMP Said in 2015 It Signed Universal Music South Africa for Distribution and Publishing. A Decade of Gazza’s Own Catalogue Credits Never Name Universal Once | Distribution,Publishing | Gazza Music Production, Universal Music South Africa, Universal Music Group | Not disclosed Not disclosed | Document |
| Diamond Platnumz Spent Years Saying He Owned Wasafi Outright. A 2018 Regulator’s Notice Put Him at 45 Percent. | Wasafi Media, WCB Wasafi | Not disclosed | Document | |
| Elizabeth Music Group Signed Tanzania’s Sanja Kong to a Worldwide Publishing Deal. The LLC Named in Its Own Footer Dissolved Five Years Before the Company Says It Was Founded | Elizabeth Music Group, ONErpm, Jungle Fam | Not disclosed | Document | |
| Toss Said He Doesn’t Own ‘Umlando’s’ Masters. The 2022 Credit Names Soweto Cool, Not Him | Soweto Cool | N/A Not disclosed | Document | |
| Downtown Music Publishing Africa Took On the Beggars Music Catalogue for Africa. The UK Register Shows XL Recordings Has Owned Beggars Music Since 2020 | Licensing, Publishing | Sheer Publishing Africa, Beggars Music | Not disclosed Not disclosed. No consideration, advance, administration fee, commission, royalty split or revenue share was stated by either party, and no equity is stated to have changed hands in this announcement. | Document |
| Reservoir Media and PopArabia Bought Part of Cairo’s RE Media Catalogue in 2023. Neither Side Has Ever Said How Much of It, or for What Price | Catalogue Sale | Reservoir Media, Inc., PopArabia, RE Media | N/A Not disclosed. Neither Reservoir's newsroom release nor any trade report checked states a price. Reservoir's FY2024 Q2 earnings (covering the quarter in which this deal closed) list RE Media and El Sawareekh among the period's catalogue additions without itemising a figure for either. | Document |
Corrections to any figure or party listed here go to the newsroom and are applied to the underlying deal record, not just the roundup.
